I do like how he complains that it made him want to destroy all massive collection of consumerist nerd bullshit while simultaneously railing against this movie for being cynically commercial. Like, this useless, insincere product marketed towards people like him make him want to swear off _all_ insincere products marketed towards him that he deeply loves.

He's right, but that episode of Futurama did the same thing and people loved it, at least according to this guy's description. I mean, it was a short What If Machine episode, but it was funny and based entirely on 80s arcade nostalgia.

And I'm sorry if your "nerd culture" has been co-opted by the masses, Mr Movie Bob, do you think that hasn't happened to everything I like too? Walk into the same Hot Topic, walk out with an X Los Angeles T-shirt and a punk rock compilation featuring such punk rock classics as Fallout Boy (not that they aren't nice people in real life) and go buy a Minor Threat T-shirt at Forever 21 for your sweetheart.

Get the fuck used to it. The barcade I used to enjoy for its pinball selection now has a line out the door and bouncers every night of the week like it was some Hollywood night club. Geek culture's a thing and this is going to be a thing. Maybe this will help you get laid.

It won't.

You're doing the lord's work.

I almost submitted this based on the fact that it was viral and I hate this movie before seeing it and so on. I agree with everything you just said.

I had to stop this horrible video after 2 minutes, but his "Really That Good" series of reviews I found to be excellent. For instance, his ghostbusters analysis talks about the plotlines the movie _didn't_ have, which I never really consciously registered before.

https://youtu.be/BPoILjs6BYI

Being a sincere manchild is, at best, a step sideways from just acting like one.

But POE was built on sincere manchildren. HAVE WE FORGOTTEN WHO WE ARE.

You are not the same man I married, Xenocide!!

Actually, according to those leaked Sony emails (which are probably more trustworthy than official studio spokesmen) it cost 0 million after marketing.

And Sony will continue to green light Sandler movies.

I have a theory that Mad Max Fury Road kind of killed any hope for other summer blockbusters' success. Even if you did find flaws in it and want to bicker over it (and there are some flaws) you have to admit that it's a damn good movie compared to almost everything else that's out there. To a guy who took a lot of semi-useless (but fun) film classes in college, it's fun, but to a person who might have been thinking they'd go see Terminator Genisys or Pixels this summer it could've been like eating LSD for the first time! Too bad this didn't work for The Mummy vs. Starship Troopers, but hey we barely had the internet back then. People are learning and that's great!

I agree with you wholeheartedly, with only the slight apprehension that it might somehow include all of us.

Why would you even attempt a Qbert joke after Wreck It Ralph did it so well? Oh wait, this is Sandler and he is the laziest comedian alive.

I'm certainly not going to watch another one BEFORE they do it, I don't want to know anything about the movie before then.


Incidentally, Adam Sandler is moving or may have already moved into one of the rich parts of the town where I grew up. If I bump in to him in the future, is there a message PoeTV would like me to relay?

Ask him what his favorite character to play in SNL was, and then run off sobbing no matter what he answers.